I was told without hardened exhaust valve seats, they (valve seats) would be
damaged with unleaded gas. In my old IH Travelall, they said if you burned
one tank of leaded out of four, you'd be ok. Does anyone know how good the
"Lead" additives are? Bob K in PHX
----- Original Message -----
From: "wayne osborne" <wayne@chevytrucks.org>
To: <Spinningroach@aol.com>; <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Running unleaded
> i may be wrong but---there's nothing that prevents you from running
> unleaded gas now, the older engines didn't have hardened valve seats in
the
> heads and allowed carbon to build up not allowing a good seat after a long
> while. Having a valve job and replacing the seats with hardened ones is
> about the only thing done to an older engine to make use unleaded. Unsure
> as to what this would cost. --wayne
>
>
>
>
> At 04:52 AM 3/20/03 -0500, Spinningroach@aol.com wrote:
> >Hi guys, I'm sure a majority of you brilliant motorheads can answer this
> >question of mine real easely : I have a '68 327 Camaro engine in my 56
half
> >ton. It's a 250 hp L73 engine (# T0521HK) and I would like to make it run
on
> >unleaded gas. What sould I do, any idea of the cost of such operation,
and do
> >you know any drawbacks that I might encounter, maybe due to the age or
state
> >of the engine?
> >
> >Also, I used to gather some information from "GM internet response
center". I
> >lost their tracks (after reformating my hard drive, I lost a lot of
data...
> >). I can't get directly to them through gm.com. Any idea?
> >
> >Thanks in advance. JP
> >oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
> Wayne Osborne
> http://www.chevytrucks.org
> http://www.chevytrucks.org/wayne
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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